Scientific Components Corp

Scientific Components Corp, doing business as Mini-Circuits, manufactures RF, IF, and microwave components and serves as a prime contractor (70% of recent awards) on full-and-open federal procurements, with no SBA set-aside certifications. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, with primary manufacturing operations at that location. Mini-Circuits has maintained continuous federal contracting eligibility since 2001 and competes across 309 awards spanning the past several years without set-aside protection, indicating strong commercial-market positioning in specialized electronics manufacturing.

Mini-Circuits' federal portfolio centers on discrete RF and microwave component manufacturing — filters, amplifiers, switches, power dividers, attenuators, adapters, synthesized signal generators, and related passive and active components spanning frequencies from direct current to 86 gigahertz. Recent representative prime awards include a $33,272 purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard in July 2026 for RF, IF, and microwave components with firm fixed pricing and MIL-STD compliance packaging requirements; a $43,160 delivery from Naval Sea Systems Command in July 2023 for eight Model SSG-15G-RC 15 gigahertz synthesized signal generators under a brand-name justification sole-source vehicle; a $14,248 order from Naval Sea Systems Command in May 2023 for a power divider at 0.5–40 gigahertz; a $15,618 Marine Corps procurement in June 2024 for a high-power amplifier; and a $13,036 Naval Sea Systems Command adapter order in September 2025. The majority of prime work carries ceiling values under $50,000 — typical of component supply contracts — though the combined potential value across all 309 awards ($2.1 million) reflects the low unit cost of most RF components.

Customer concentration skews defense. The top five customer agencies account for 39% of awards by count: the Department of the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command (44 awards, $114 thousand combined potential value), the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research (23 awards, $266 thousand combined potential value), the Department of the Army (21 awards, $429 thousand combined potential value), Naval Sea Systems Command (17 awards, $160 thousand combined potential value), and the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Missiles and Space (17 awards). By potential-value share, the Department of the Army ($429 thousand), Navy Office of Naval Research ($266 thousand), Naval Air Warfare Center ($213 thousand), Naval Supply Systems Command ($163 thousand), and Naval Sea Systems Command ($160 thousand) dominate. The portfolio spans 54 distinct federal agencies, reflecting the broad adoption of Mini-Circuits components across defense and civilian federal programs, but Army and Navy account for the majority of both award volume and dollars.

Mini-Circuits places task orders under the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (9 task orders), the indefinite-delivery contract SPRWA124D0008 (7 task orders), the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business vehicle (3 task orders), the Combat Net Radio vehicle (2 task orders), and Basic Ordering Agreement W31P4Q22G0003 (2 task orders). The vendor's award NAICS concentration aligns with manufacturing: Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (103 awards), Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (23 awards), Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing (21 awards), Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (20 awards), and Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (18 awards). Primary PSC categories are Antennas, Waveguides, and Related Equipment (39 awards); Miscellaneous Communication Equipment (32 awards); Miscellaneous Electrical and Electronic Components (26 awards); Amplifiers (24 awards); and Connectors, Electrical (12 awards).

Activity has grown significantly year over year — 10 awards in 2022, 15 in 2023, and 53 in 2024 — with a contracted pace of 27 awards in 2025 and 4 awards recorded so far in 2026 (as of mid-July). As a subcontractor, Mini-Circuits supplies RF and microwave components to major defense primes including Lockheed Martin (dominant sub relationship with recurring orders for filters, amplifiers, power splitters, switches, and attenuators across PATRIOT PAC-3 missile production, THAAD interceptor programs, JASSM, Cruise Missile Defense Systems Sentinel A4 radar, Advanced Radar Threat System variants, and B-1B band RF systems), Raytheon (Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile, Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense System, Taiwan Surveillance Radar Program follow-on support, and related filter and amplifier work), L3Harris Technologies (RF/IF switches and amplifiers for Meadowlands Counter Communications Systems, ULV shipboard communications, and tactical radio programs), BAE Systems, Thales Defense & Security, General Dynamics Mission Systems, Northrop Grumman, and Southwest Research Institute. The subcontract footprint spans defense programs anchored in missile systems, radar, communications, and electronic warfare. Mini-Circuits also performs sub work under prime awards from the Aerospace Corporation, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and others, reflecting consistent demand for its component specifications across the defense industrial base. The combined dollars obligated ($18 million) substantially exceed combined potential value across the award set, indicating heavy invoicing and completion velocity on low-value component orders.